Re: Help on disassembler/decompilers

>[Turning object code back into assembler is pretty straightforward, and
>every debugger does it. Someone else asked about disassembling into higher
>level languages a little while ago, but I didn't see any responses. -John]


See anonymous ftp from cs.washington.edu (128.95.1.4) `pub/decomp.tar.Z'.
It takes VAX object code back to fake C. One of my profs did a one-day hack
a while back to decompile assembly code in to compiler IR. From that, he
could have created source code in several languages. My guess is that
decompiling in to a language that is e.g., saccarine-sweetened assembler (C)
is `easy', while decompiling e.g., in to APL is hard.


;-D on ( Now for a deprogrammer... ) Pardo
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